The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-07-13
The Steam on Both Wheels +!

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progress. Every cart needs two wheels, b
and if one is off the cart capsizes. Our 5
temperance reform depends for Ills sue +,
cess on both legal suppression OF dram $
shops and on moral and religious ef. !,
forts to dissuade people from drinking |
liouor If either wheel is off the re- !
form capsizes.
This simple, elementary truth finds
fresh confirmation every day. In one
of the most thrifty towns of North
Carolina local prohibition has been IN
force for three or four years. The
people voted heartily (under their ex-
cellent "looal.option" or local suppress
sion laN) that no saloons should be Ii.
censed. None have been; the letter
of the law has been well enforced.
Yet there has been no little hard
drinking and drunkeunessin that town.
How so? Some thirsty tipplers bought
it beyond the town limits and brought
it home in their jugs, and thus evaded
the law. Worse yet, two rival drug.
gists laid in large stock Of liquid
damnation," and have peddled it out
over their counters as medicine"
The topers 60 to the apothecary-shop,
and then, in addition to lying about
their health, or carrying lie from
their doctor, they take home the wine
or the Bourbon and get drunk on it.
To get rid of the temptations, the idle
habits, and the corruption of the open
saloons is great benefit indeed, But
the primary purpose of the temper
ance reform is to stop liquor drinking
and drunkenness. If the people of
that or any other town either import
their own liquors or get them by false
hood at drug stores or "town agencies,
the mischief and the misery of the in
toxicating cup are not ended. The
t method of obtaining the liquor is
t changed; that's all.
r Now, in such town as the one we
i are describing, there is just as msch
need Of moral efforts in the churches
!, schools, and families to uproot the
drinking habits as if no proh:btory
y law existed. The legal.suppressior
e wheel has been driven for all that it i;
y worth, and we'll driven yet the car
1t has capsized.
Sod Sod never means to let Christian
n. people, or parents, or teachers shirI
10 their bounden duties with impunity
v and turn over the whole sin of bottle
be worship to the hands of magistrate
is. and policemen-no more than lie II
be tends that all licentieusuess and the
in and gambling shall be left to the civ
Ia. authorities to suppress, while churc
mo- and school and home fail to teach ii
Seventh and Eighth Commandment
=, We are radicals, and go for the ro
- as we'll as the trunk and the branch
:; of the devils upas. Any man wi
!. opposes the sale of intoxicants in Il
- saloons, and yet bsys wines, ales, al
=. brandies for his own table, is playil
~ ~ into the hands of the enemy. Prot
4, bition and total abstinance stand
lin fall together.
- A Jealous political prohibition
,aS said to me lately: "What is the use
's' your otal.abstinence sermons, a
temperance Sunday-school books, a
tracts, aud pledges? Clean out the
looms aud the evil is done will
Good friend, without moral efforts y
low will not be able to "clean out the
eby loons;" and if you did people will
lar their intoxicants elsewhere. unless J
-aln can give them total abstinence C
our science to let the aocursed stuff alo
the The evil is not "done with" while
uni drinking usages with open mouth
Will out for the bottle!
sion Push on the temperance meeti
OF Push on the temperance literature
otes every shape. Pash on the pledges
Q a entire abstinence. Push on the Fl
for prohibition at the same time.
- the steam on both wheels We W
- law, aud love also persuasion not
drink liquor. Shutting saloons is
all we must smash the jugs also.
We want hundreds more fe
stin. tongued advocates of total abstine
as and saloon suppression. Peace v
,;L each other, brethren aud sisters
i''H' war to the hilt against the bo
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